Chapter 31: 36,000 Days; 18,000 Times; 867,840…

Wen Chu grew bigger, and Xiu didn’t know what to feed him. Finally, he tentatively fed some green algae.
Fortunately, Wen Chu wasn’t picky about food. He ate whatever was brought to his mouth, showing an expression of enjoying delicious food while eating, his eyes shining.
Like he had never eaten before.

Xiu looked at Wen Chu, who was saying “ah-woo ah-woo,” and thought, isn’t it true that he hasn’t eaten before.
Poor little thing.

“Xiu, I’m full.” Wen Chu looked up at Xiu.
Even after turning into a human, Xiu could still see the shadow of the little jellyfish in Wen Chu, especially the action of looking up for him, which was exactly the same as the jellyfish.

Xiu’s gaze softened a bit. He reached out to wipe the corner of Wen Chu’s mouth, then tried to speak in a business-like tone as much as possible: “I calculated, your Lifespan drop speed will reach over a thousand times in five days. We’d better save enough ninety-nine years before reaching the Arctic.”

Wen Chu was stunned upon hearing this.
He didn’t have a very concrete concept of multiples, only vaguely knowing that Lifespan points would drop very fast in the future, but he never expected the drop speed to reach over a thousand times in five days.

“How can it be like this? Isn’t it multiplied by two?” Wen Chu muttered. “Multiplied by two isn’t much; why so much all of a sudden…”
His original plan was to go to the Arctic with Xiu and save Lifespan points slowly. Now time suddenly became tight.

Xiu looked helplessly at the illiterate jellyfish: “Multiplying so many 2s, it’s long past the problem of doubling. Just be glad it’s not squared.”
Becoming n to the power of 2 wouldn’t be a matter of thousands of times; the growth rate of exponential functions was completely explosive.

Wen Chu didn’t understand: “What?”

Xiu tapped his head: “Illiterate, I’ll teach you math when I have time later.”

Fine, treated as illiterate again.
Wen Chu didn’t rush to refute. After getting along for this period, he completely understood a truth:
In front of Xiu, the more pitiful and ignorant he was, the easier the other party would back down.
Therefore, Wen Chu simply responded with “Okay.”

Then he continued to ask: “If we have to save enough ninety-nine years before reaching the Arctic, do we have to do it for a long time?”

Xiu felt hot on his face from his straightforward words, barely saying: “Mn, so on the road… you can touch me.”

“Touch where?” Wen Chu pressed.

Xiu: “…”
Xiu endured and endured, finally opening his mouth with a voice almost inaudible: “…My scales.”

Xiu thought saying this would make Wen Chu cheer and jump. This heartless little pervert jellyfish had always been like this.
But Wen Chu didn’t. Wen Chu just looked at him quietly, and after several seconds asked: “Is it also to resurrect the ocean?”

Xiu just wanted to escape this topic, saying “Mn” several times in a row, afraid to look at the youth’s beautiful face.
In Wen Chu’s eyes, it seemed like he was completely impatient with him.

Wen Chu slowly gave an “Oh” again, then continued to slowly extend his tentacles to hug Xiu’s waist, saying: “I’m ready. Let’s go.”
“…Starting from tomorrow, is that okay?”
He wanted to think about a more important thing now and didn’t really want to mate with Xiu.

Xiu calculated the time, more or less enough, and agreed.
He continued to drag the weak, pitiful Wen Chu who couldn’t swim on the road.

Wen Chu quietly acted as Xiu’s little pendant, watching the seawater whistling past his ears, all the way until nightfall.
Xiu looked at him several times on the way, finally asking when making the bed for Wen Chu and not being pestered by Wen Chu to sleep together: “What’s wrong? Uncomfortable? Are Lifespan points enough?”

Wen Chu shook his head: “No, enough.”
He was just thinking about things.

Xiu was even more puzzled.
Wen Chu was quiet on the road before, but that was because he was sleeping. Usually, as long as he was awake, Wen Chu was definitely the most talkative and lively one.
What exactly happened?

Seeing Xiu staring at him, Wen Chu barely curled his lips and smiled at Xiu: “I’m really fine, just a little tired.”

Xiu was half-believing, but ultimately didn’t pursue further.
He felt it was reasonable for Wen Chu to be tired. After all, after suddenly dying this morning, they did it from morning to noon.
He was healed by Wen Chu, so he was energetic until now, but Wen Chu didn’t have the ability to transfer Lifespan points to himself for healing.
Xiu completely ignored the fact that it was Wen Chu who kept pressing him down to do it in the end.

Tsk, weak as hell, yet insisted on transferring Lifespan points to others.
Xiu looked at Wen Chu critically, feeling Wen Chu was weak and small no matter how he looked. Thinking about how to feed the person rounder after arriving at the Arctic, he made the bed for Wen Chu.

“Alright, sleep.” Xiu said. “We continue traveling tomorrow. Rest well.”
“Also, not allowed to transfer Lifespan points to me again.”

“Okay.” Wen Chu agreed, obediently moving to his own bed.
Didn’t act spoiled or shameless to sleep with Xiu.
Xiu looked at Wen Chu again, finally saying nothing, just lying down near Wen Chu to sleep.

Late at night.
Wen Chu still hadn’t fallen asleep. He turned his back to Xiu, staring blankly at the empty seawater, wondering what he was thinking.

Just then, a system light screen suddenly popped up.
[He doesn’t dislike you, not using you. Rest early.]

Perhaps feeling such text was too like an order, the light screen disappeared quickly, leaving only three words when popping out again:
[Don’t be sad.]

Wen Chu looked at the light screen, a bit confused: [System?]

A low male voice sounded: [Mn.]

Wen Chu thought for a moment and explained: [I’m not sad. I was just thinking about things.]
It wasn’t the first day he knew Xiu didn’t like him.

The system chatted patiently: [Thinking about what?]

Wen Chu blinked those innocent round eyes: [I was thinking, since Xiu only wants my Lifespan points and agreed to mate with me, then if I hide the fact that I don’t need to save up ninety-nine years of Lifespan to resurrect the ocean, I shouldn’t be considered an irresponsible jellyfish, right?]

System: […?]
This really wasn’t sadness, only bad intentions.

The system was puzzled: [Resurrect the ocean without Lifespan points? What did you do?]

Wen Chu deftly avoided this topic: [So am I considered irresponsible like this?]

System: […No.]

[Yay.] Wen Chu cheered softly.
He had struggled for almost a day about whether to tell Xiu the truth, but if he told Xiu, Xiu definitely wouldn’t let him mate with him.
This way he could mate with Xiu, realize Xiu’s wish, and complete the system task.
It was completely a triple win.

Wen Chu asked the system happily: [Then can you still guide me? Like at the beginning, using arrows to guide me to the Arctic.]

[I can, but why do you need me to guide?] The system was puzzled. [Xiu can take you there.]

[Then will Xiu die if he doesn’t eat?]
Wen Chu avoided this topic again. He also learned Xiu’s trick of changing the subject when not wanting to answer.

The system was helpless, ultimately not pursuing further, answering: [No.]

Wen Chu continued to ask: [What about me? Will I die if I don’t eat?]

System: [Under the condition that Lifespan points are higher than thirty days, no. You will only die if Lifespan points are too low plus not eating.]

Wen Chu frowned in contemplation for a while.
Finally, Wen Chu looked at the shell nest placed beside him.
He carried this shell all the time and couldn’t bear to throw it away, but if he prepared to do that in the next five days… separating a tentacle to curl the shell nest was a bit cumbersome.
And easy to poke Xiu.

Wen Chu asked again: [Then can you help me store something? Just this shell nest. I want to take it away.]

The system refused coldly: [No. Items within the plane cannot be taken out.]

Wen Chu clasped his hands together: [Please, I beg you. I really like this shell.]

System: […]
Wen Chu really remembered his joking “say something nice and I’ll help you” firmly.
Fine, at least he didn’t call him mama right away this time. At least there was progress.

The system barely said: [Oh.]

Wen Chu was happy. He hugged his little shell and said: [Thank you! I’ll give the shell nest to you tomorrow morning.]
[Now I figured it out! Trouble you to guide me tomorrow.]

System: [?]
What exactly did he figure out??
The system wanted to ask more, but Wen Chu, having solved a big knot in his heart, happily hugged his shell and curled up, ready to sleep.
The system could only stop talking.
Fine, sleep. Wen Chu must be tired today.

.
Next day.
Xiu noticed Wen Chu’s change immediately after waking up.

“Xiu, as long as I have Lifespan points, I’m fine without eating. So let’s keep traveling afterward, okay?” Wen Chu shook Xiu’s arm, restoring his usual chatterbox state.

Xiu nodded: “Mn.”
As long as Wen Chu was sure he would be fine, spending more time on traveling was not bad.

Xiu looked Wen Chu up and down, seeing the other was still Lifespany and lively, before relaxing and asking: “Is your Lifespan drop speed sixty-four times today?”

“Yes.” Wen Chu glanced at his light screen, then looked at Xiu sincerely. “Then can I do it with you now?”

Xiu’s eyelid twitched at his sudden straightforward words, fish tail moving unnaturally.
The liquid in the fish tail showed its presence again at this time.

“Yes.” Xiu bit the trailing note very lightly.
But Wen Chu heard clearly. The moment Xiu agreed, he used tentacles to tightly wrap around the other’s tail.
Leaving no gap at all.
Even one tentacle moved to Xiu’s waist because there was no space.

“Wait!”
Xiu didn’t expect Wen Chu to directly imprison his tail, struggling to pry open Wen Chu’s tentacles: “You can only use one tentacle, otherwise I can’t carry you on the road.”

Wen Chu looked up at Xiu, not only not releasing the tentacles obediently but extending his arms to hug Xiu’s waist firmly: “It doesn’t matter; I can carry you.”

He had round eyes, exceptionally innocent from a top-down angle, so much so that Xiu was dazzled by his expression for a moment before reacting to what he actually said.
Xiu wanted to say how can you carry me if you can’t swim, but before he could speak, he completely lost his voice.

Cold tentacles probed into his scales.

[Lifespan +24h]

The liquid warmed by the merfolk all night was squeezed out because of this.
Under the transparent tentacles, everything about Xiu couldn’t be hidden. Wen Chu’s eyes widened slightly: “What is this?”
Xiu leaked so fast? Obviously not so fast yesterday.

Xiu trembled his teeth: “Your…”

Wen Chu understood.
He was inexplicably happy, tentacles even more excited, drilling directly into the place where Lifespan points could double.

“What about inside here?” Wen Chu asked while increasing Lifespan points. “Here opened a little bit yesterday too. Is there any inside here too?”
“Can Xiu conceive eggs?”
Wen Chu got shy himself as he spoke.
“We can raise eggs together.”
Raising eggs together, the probability of Xiu liking him increased a bit again.

To improve the efficiency of increasing Lifespan points, Wen Chu would only withdraw a little bit each time and go back immediately.
Even yesterday, the softest place here hadn’t been treated so frequently.
Xiu originally held a bellyful, now sloshing from being poked, almost subconsciously wanting to curl his fish tail but unable to move because of the beautiful youth’s massive tentacles.
His fish tail was forcibly pried open, completely displayed before Wen Chu.
No escape.

“Shut… up…” Xiu spat out two words intermittently.
Raise my ass, he can’t give birth.

Wen Chu was obedient; Xiu told him to shut up, so he shut up.
He separated four tentacles for swimming. Tentacles contracted and expanded, lightly pushing the merfolk and jellyfish to float.
There is gravity in the ocean too.
With Wen Chu taking Xiu along like this, under the effect of his own body weight, Xiu ate a large section more of the tentacle, pupils beginning to dilate.
He looked at Wen Chu in disbelief, seeming to want to ask how Wen Chu could swim, but opening his mouth left only broken groans.

Wen Chu didn’t speak, burying his head to increase Lifespan points, incidentally knocking on the system.
[System, can you guide me to the Arctic?]

The system probably just woke up too, not seeing his situation clearly at first, saying: [Okay… What are you doing?!]

[Taking Xiu to the Arctic.] Wen Chu felt he was great.
Able to harvest Lifespan points, mate with Xiu, and take Xiu to the Arctic.

The system was rendered speechless by Wen Chu’s proud “begging for praise” look, embarrassed to make a sound, finally only releasing a blue fluorescent arrow to point the direction for Wen Chu.

Wen Chu said politely: [Thank you.]

The system didn’t reply.
The system had logged off at light speed.

It was common for the system not to reply. Wen Chu was used to it; as long as it guided the way.
He hugged Xiu and advanced rapidly.
Jellyfish move by pushing one by one. Wen Chu’s tentacle movements never stopped, so Xiu on him suffered enough.
Not to mention the tentacles poking wildly without rules, they would even thrust fiercely every once in a while under the thrust.
Tentacles and scales fit seamlessly. Except for squeezing out a little water at the beginning, the rest of the water was firmly trapped inside.
Xiu clenched his palm until it broke to avoid showing too unbearable a posture in front of Wen Chu.
But it was wretched enough now.
How the pink soft flesh retained the tentacles, how it trembled and shivered, and even being brought to somewhat eversion were clearly seen by Wen Chu.

[Lifespan +48h]
[Lifespan +48h]
[Lifespan +48h]

…

It wasn’t until the tentacles leaked liquid again that Xiu could catch his breath.
He looked at Wen Chu through gritted teeth, but obviously, no matter how fierce and unattainable a person was, they couldn’t be scary when fucked thoroughly.
Wen Chu felt Xiu was issuing an invitation to him.
So he obediently withdrew the tentacle and replaced it with a brand new one.

“Why can you… Mmph??”

Xiu’s words were filled by the new tentacle before finishing.
At this time, both his scales were displayed without concealment, but Wen Chu had absolutely no intention of touching his scales today.
As a male merfolk with completely normal sexual orientation before meeting Wen Chu, not touching scales but just letting scales eat tentacles, Xiu was always held back at the critical moment.
He breathed heavily, trying to keep himself awake, reaching out to grab Wen Chu’s tentacle and pull it out: “You… stop for me.”

Wen Chu stopped, looking at Xiu confusedly: “What’s wrong?”
Still asking what’s wrong, still showing such an expression, pretending to be cute for what?

Xiu glared at him again: “Why can you swim?”

“Ah, I could originally, but wanted you to hold me back then.” Wen Chu told the truth very calmly.
Flip over too many times and get used to flipping over. Moreover, this wasn’t a sudden flip; it was his proactive flip.
Anyway, Xiu wanted him alive.
Since his Lifespan points were so useful to Xiu, then if he went a little overboard, Xiu would agree too, right?
After all, he wasn’t a little jellyfish Xiu could throw away casually anymore. Even if not pretending to be pitiful deliberately, Xiu had to weigh his value before throwing him away.

Wen Chu was calm, but Xiu felt an inexplicable chill rising from his spine at this moment.
Originally just being fucked too comfortably, Xiu never felt he would be completely constrained by Wen Chu, only treating just now as his concession and indulgence to the jellyfish.
But it seemed things weren’t like this.
Scenes from the past flashed before his eyes one by one. Xiu’s memory finally froze at a certain sunset when he fed Wen Chu Lifespan points.

At that time, they had only reached the stage of kissing.
But because of the indulgence of consecutive days, he relaxed his vigilance against Wen Chu at that time. When Wen Chu, still a jellyfish, circled his waist, he vaguely felt a sense of crisis being spyed upon.
But just that once. Later Wen Chu annoyed him because of the injured tentacle.
Even in a chaotic state, the jellyfish had an intuitive perception of emotions. After he got angry, those incongruities disappeared quickly, as if they never existed.

Now, the sense of incongruity rose again.
Xiu remembered his first impression of Wen Chu many days ago.
——As long as pity arises for this jellyfish, he will definitely be offended by him in the next moment.

Xiu shivered all over.
He realized extremely distinctly that he might really be fucked to death in the degenerated reproductive cavity, naturally not half-indulging and half-shirking following Wen Chu anymore.

“No—can’t do this. Let go of me. Stop for a moment.”
Xiu swung his fish tail, struggling strenuously.
Only at this time did he discover that the weak and harmless little jellyfish’s tentacles could be so powerful, wrapping him so tightly that even he couldn’t break free immediately.

Wen Chu looked at him with those azure eyes.
He silently tightened the circle of tentacles, lowering his head, white long hair pouring down.

“Xiu, but if we don’t do it, I will die.” Wen Chu whispered. “Don’t you still want my Lifespan points?”

As he spoke, without waiting for Xiu’s answer, he lowered his head and kissed the other’s lips.
Wen Chu knew clearly that Xiu had no love for him.
But the kiss he dropped was cherished and careful, completely different from the rough tentacles. This kiss was simply like a feather, ending after sweeping across Xiu’s lips.
Leaving Xiu with the deepest impression was only Wen Chu’s magnified face and the uneasy trembling of those beautiful eyelashes.

“Please, Xiu.”
Wen Chu hugged his waist and abdomen, pasted over, rubbing his neck like a little jellyfish.
“Eighteen thousand times. If you don’t agree and struggle, I definitely won’t be able to complete it.”

Wen Chu said and lifted the tentacle just fed to Xiu.
“Look, one of my tentacles is wilted.”

Xiu with scales wide open: …
Talking about miserable, it should be him being miserable, right?
But he really had no way with Wen Chu like this.
Wen Chu was just a bit stronger and would get lost walking. If he didn’t yield to Wen Chu, this stupid jellyfish would probably really die.

Xiu sighed: “Fine, you do it.”
“Don’t go too far. At least leave me some time to guide the way. Don’t get lost.”

Wen Chu agreed obediently, kissing Xiu’s side face again.
Merfolk have slender necks with obvious Adam’s apples. And on his neck was a simple shell pendant.
 

As early as when he yielded the first step, Wen Chu understood.
Being obedient in front of Xiu, Xiu would favor him.
Even if this favor came from his ability.
So what? This was also the favor he earned by his ability. He was going to mate with Xiu.
And lay eggs.